2009/2/10 Mark Haney <mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Oh? And how come I can install the same set of software in Gentoo and > not need an extra 50+MB of dependencies? I wish I had an example at the > moment, but I don't. However, I'm sure one will pop up sooner or later. > Because gentoo builds from source on your local machine, building in support for componenets as specified by your USE flags, whereas Fedora is a binary distribution, and dependencies are generated during the building of those binaries. Now, why don't my apples taste like oranges? Jonathan. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
